Re: [galaxy-dev] external authentication - empty REMOTE_USER

22 Oct 2015

      Hi,

here is some additional information :

- I have no change in my paster.log with my current galaxy.conf file.

- If I force the connexion with a user (with a RequestHeader set
REMOTE_USER "<username>" in galaxy.conf), it works. My galaxy instance open
on my user session, and I get a "galaxy.web.framework.webapp WARNING
2015-10-22 10:37:19,762 User logged in as '<username>@example.fr'
externally, but has a cookie as '@example.fr' invalidating session" in the
paster.log.

Is it a syntax problem in my galaxy.conf file ?

F.T

2015-10-21 12:11 GMT+02:00 Floreline TOUCHARD <floreline.touchard@gmail.com>
:
...
Hi,
I've got an issue with my external authentication configuration. I use
Apache and the mod_perl
modules (AuthenNIS + AuthzNIS + Net-NIS) to authenticate to galaxy with
NIS accounts.
I have the authentication form  when I try to access galaxy web page.
But after a successful authentication it seems that the REMOTE_USER
variable is not passed to my galaxy instance. I'm connected under "@
example.org" regardless of the authentication account. That's why I think
the REMOTE_USER passed to Galaxy is not 'null' but empty.
I tested the value of the variable with the following php script:
<?PHP
foreach($_SERVER as $key_name => $key_value) {
print $key_name . " = " . $key_value . "<br>";
}
?>
I've got a REMOTE_USER et HTTP_REMOTE_USER with a username value.
I don't understand where my problem lies.
Here is my galaxy.conf file :
Listen 2208
<VirtualHost *:2208>
RewriteEngine on
        DocumentRoot "/path/to/static"
<Directory "/path/to/static">
Options +Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride None
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
AuthType Basic
        AuthName "Authentifiez vous"
        PerlAuthenHandler Apache2::AuthenNIS
        PerlAuthzHandler Apache2::AuthzNIS
        PerlSetVar AllowAlternateAuth no
        require valid-user
</Directory>
RewriteEngine on
        RewriteRule . - [E=RU:%{LA-U:REMOTE_USER}]
        RequestHeader set REMOTE_USER %{RU}e
RewriteRule ^/galaxy$ /galaxy/ [R]
   RewriteRule ^/static/style/(.*) /path/to/static/june_2007_style/blue/$1
[L]
   RewriteRule ^/static/scripts/(.*)
/softhpc/galaxy/test/galaxy-master/static/scripts/packed/$1
[L]
   RewriteRule ^/static/(.*) /path/to/static/$1 [L]
   RewriteRule ^/favicon.ico /path/to/static/favicon.ico [L]
   RewriteRule ^/robots.txt /path/to/static/robots.txt [L]
   RewriteRule ^(.*) http://localhost:2209$1 [P]
</VirtualHost>
Thanks in advance !
F.T